My understanding that as a male your X DNA is inherited through your mothers X chromosome, from her father's X chromosome, from his mother's X, and from her father's X so on. This differentiates the inheritance of X from the inheritance of MtDNA which comes from your mother's mother's, mother etc. Bob On 24 November 2015 at 14:58, John McKinnon via <sct-islay@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Listers > > I can only trace Islay McKinnon ancestors to 18th century and they're > pretty > well confined to Kynagarry and Bowmore. They may well have come from Mull. > Quite a few Islay marriages to link McKinnon's with MacMillan (Tockmal), > Cameron, McCorquodale (Nosebridge), Spence (Bowmore), Brown (Bowmore) so > there are some genealogical links to the wider community. Eliane Scott is > the expert! > > I'm happy to go along with Trica's idea of a shared DNA listing. I have > had > an FTDNA account (F287689) test results for 111STR and Genographic & > Britainsdna SNPs. GEDmatch don't appear to have any interest in these tests > so I have an autosomal test on the way. I've not the faintest idea what > X-DNA is all about. Hope to understand before I die. > > I have a public listing of my STR on Ysearch.org. Happy to list on > GEDmatch > when I have autosomal results. > Anybody with the knowledge and energy willing to set up an Islay project on > FTDNA? > > Where is best home for an Islay DNA list? > > John McKinnon > > > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor > netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- *The best part about genealogy is searching for ancestors and finding friends. *